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Daniel McInerny is author of the darkly comic thriller, High Concepts: A Hollywood Nightmare, as well as the CEO of Trojan Tub Entertainment, a children's entertainment company featuring his humorous Kingdom of Patria series for middle grade readers (http://kingdomofpatria.com).

A native of South Bend, Indiana, he holds a PhD in philosophy and taught for many years at various universities in the United States. He now lives in Virginia with his wife Amy and three children, Lucy, Rita, and Francis.

He blogs on the craft of storytelling at The Comic Muse (http://thecomicmuse.com).


Is it the case that classic children’s books–such as Enid Blyton’s The Famous Five series, Arthur Ransome’s Swallows and Amazons series, Jerry West’s The Happy Hollisters series, and C.S. Lewis’s Narnia books–give us too rosy a view of childhood?

Addressing this question recently in the Guardian, Julia Eccleshare argued that the “rosy cozy” view of childhood offered by such books no more matched... Read more of this blog post »
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